Personal speaker evolution

Dual - 4 years. bought an integrated with turntable and speakers when in Germany in 1970 or so. Eventually broke down but provided some good tunes in college.

Kef 105/3 - 6 years. I liked these but eventually one of my kids blew the tweeters.

Chapman T-7 - one year

Merlin VSM-SE - six months

Spendor SP100 - three months

Audio Physic Virgo - one and 1/2 months.

(My ears were getting better. Or something.)

MEADOWLARK BLUE HERON - 9 months then lost my job and had to sell. These are damn good speakers and it hurt to let them go.

ESP Concert Grands - on their way. We shall see....

Huge wood Sansui speakers with wood grills -- awesome for my teen years through college -- free from my brother

Ohm bookshelf speakers -- decent because dirt cheap -- maybe $100 in 1983?

ADS M9 -- loved these -- last speaker I had before audiophilia set in -- about $700 in 1990

Hales Rev 3's -- excellent all rounder, but you need a big room and big amps -- about 2100 in 1994/5

Soliloquy 5.0's -- paid about $900 new with the stands -- a great deal -- superb little speakers -- I miss them but don't have a place for them

Paradigm Atoms for the office -- all the niceties aside, they are still a fairly cheap little speaker

Soliloquy Sat-5's for the office -- much better

Gallo Due/MPS 150 -- still have them and have never had them in a position where they can show off -- paid about $1600 for the set not long ago, barely used

Spendor SP1 -- paid $700 used not long ago -- mellow as hell -- will be the speaker in the main system until I make the next choice. I can see why people like these -- never annoying -- but they are not very dynamic.

Next? Thinking of Revel F-50, Verity Fidelio, Piega C3-ltd...dreaming

Went from:

Polk RTA-11TLs ($750 new in 1990)

to:

THIEL CS3.6s ($2,000 used in 2000)

Klipsch Klipschorns (free/my parents)
Sansui 3 ways (in college)(free)
Traynor P.A. Speakers (15 inch woofer, horn tweeter)("borrowed" from fraternity)
Genesis Genre 1's ($700.00)
NHT VT2.4 ($1200.00)

In 74 I bought a pair of all-in-one (1)Utah 12" drivers and built plywood boxes for them. What can I say; I was a freshman in high school.
When I graduated I bought a demo pair of (2) Marantz Imperial 8's. My brother still has them.
Then I bought a pair of (3)Speakerlab 30's . . . still have them.
(4) Boston A70's with a JBL B380 sub. Still have
(5) Another pair of Speakerlab 30's. Still have
(6) Wharfedale W70D II's. Still have
(7) Nestorovic Type V's. Still have and love
(8) ADS L1590's with the PA1 amps. Still have

Still searching for audio nirvana, but can't seem to shed the ones I obtain in getting there.
I looooooooove speakers!!